Tag: Sci Fi

  • Wind Rising from the Tips of Green Duckweeds: —A Conversation with Qiu Anxiong

    Wind Rising from the Tips of Green Duckweeds: —A Conversation with Qiu Anxiong

    In 2006, Shanghai-based artist Qiu Anxiong premiered New Classic of Mountains and Seas I (NCMS1), a thirty-minute, three-channel ink animation that narrated a powerful allegory of modern civilization and its plight. Inspired by the ancient encyclopedic cosmography Classic of Mountains and Seas, which describes a myriad of prehistoric and mythological creatures, the video and its…